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tekirdag · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 505

You miss the service bus. So you are late for work. Later the students run around the classroom. Dept head tells you some parents have been complaining. On the way home you stumble on uneven paving. A dolmuş splashes dirty water on you-head to toe- as you walk. New worker in the corner store tries to overcharge you for a bottle of water. You get home to discover the electricity has been cut...again. You are having a bad day.

How do you shake it all off?

I watch Dallas on Digiturk. That show is so cheese, I laugh my as s off. Or I have a long hot shower followed by a tall cold beer. Find some jokes on the internet or use the STUMBLE bar to surf the net.

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Crossword puzzles. Looking at my button collection and choosing my favorites.

And I know I'm turning into my mother because sometimes cleaning up a bit helps.

And wine. There's always wine.

These are the good ways. The bad ways involve picking fights with people I love.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

how do you watch Dallas if the electricity has been cut Confused

A beer and a good book or internet or football

tekirdag · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 505

...good point.

OK. Each episode of Dallas is shown ONLY four times a day so I can catch it when the electricity comes back...if it comes back. Very Happy

yaramaz · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:38 am Post subject:

I like a glass of lovely palatable kırımızı plonk from Şok to accompany the headless torso Italian chef who does lovely cooking demonstrations on the home channel during the Az Sonra bits. He/she never speaks and their hand movements are so wonderfully controlled and elegant that I find it delightfully soothing. Watching the Torso wash squid under the tap is exquisite.

ghost · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 1693 Location: Saudi Arabia

Exercise (aerobic) followed by a cool shower, a meal and drink. Something interesting to read.

When ghost taught at a Kolej in Antalya, it was so stressed at the end of the day that it opted to get out of the school premises (ghost was living in the school at the time) - by taking a bike ride to the nearby Migros Mall.

Once at the Mall, ghost would destress with a walk around the mall, followed by a meal in the upstairs food court, followed by watching a movie in the cinema at the same mall.

In short, ghost just had to get away from the environment (school premises) that created so much stress.

Ghost in Taichung, Taiwan

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

Mark Loyd · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 517

molly farquharson · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 839 Location: istanbul

yoga in the morning-- sort of prepares me for the day.

Also, for years I have made tapes to my best friend in the States-- she makes them in her car and I make them at home. It is better and cheaper than therapy. She has heard me vent and there is no way she can pass it on to anyone who matters. I feel better and she is prohbably going "oh my god, here she goes again" and fastforwards...

ghost · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 1693 Location: Saudi Arabia

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I see that ghost now not only uses the third person but the neuter pronoun to speak about its ghostly activities. SPOOKY !

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

charleyjarv · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 2 Location: charing cross

I try to walk it off and have a meal outside my normal area ,like ghost I prefer my own company and find a stranger I can have a good rant at usually about lifes little injustices .

yaramaz · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject:

Quoth the quote:

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Now you're making me miss Digit�rk! I've thus far banned it in the new house (forseeing too many arguments over whether to watch endless football vs. anything else), but the fish channels! Ahhh, so many evenings waiting for the seahorse. Or that mean eely thing under the rock menacing the smaller fish...